Biotech Updates

International Conference for Peanut Genomics and Biotechnology

July 25, 2008

In collaboration with the American Peanut Council, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) is organizing the third international meeting of the Peanut Genomics Initiative on Advances in Arachis through Genomics and Biotechnology (AAGB-2008). AAGB-2008 will be held from 4 to 8 November 2008 at ICRISAT Headquarters, Hyderabad, India. The conference will deal with the following themes: Genetic Resources, Allelic Diversity, Germplasm Enhancement, Genomic Resources, Comparative Genomics, Gene Discovery, Biotic and Abiotic Stresses, and Product Quality and Safety.

For further details, visit http://www.icrisat.org/aagb-2008 / http://www.peanutbioscience.com/ or contact Rajeev Varshney (r.k.varshney@cgiar.org)